Glenn Beck says Rick Perry is ‘smarter than I am’ and ‘more and more remarkable every day’

Glenn Beck, recent New York transplant to Texas, just loves the Lone Star State, though he says there are too many “foreigners” (from California, that is).

“I’m in Texas because it’s one of the last places where a man can be free,” he said on his radio show yesterday.

He’s also really high on Texas Gov. Rick Perry. The conservative talk show host said the Republican governor is “becoming more and more remarkable every day.”

“He’s smarter than I am,” added Beck, a former CNN Headline News and Fox News host.

That was the prelude to a ten-minute interview with Perry. After repeating many of his recent denunciations of the Federal Reserve, Perry engaged in an extended discussion of “a billion dollars in actual gold” owned by the University of Texas system. The governor said he would like the state to get “actual possession of that gold” and said “I’m very much in favor” of moving the gold from storage in New York to Texas.

(Beck is a commercial pitchman for gold sales.)

Discussing Mitt Romney’s comment that 47 percent of Americans didn’t pay income taxes and were dependent upon government, Perry said he is worried that the nation is moving toward “a majority of people in the country who are on subsistence.”